Jun 21, 2024

2015-2016 Academic Catalog

2015-2016 Academic Catalog THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG. LINKS MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE AND CONTENT MAY BE OUT OF DATE!

Courses

Descriptions are provided for courses offered at Scripps College and offered as part of joint or cooperative programs in which Scripps participates. For those courses that may appear under more than one discipline or department, the full course description appears under the discipline or department sponsoring the course and cross-reference is made under the associated discipline or department. Numbers followed by, for example, “AA,” “AF,” or “CH,” indicate courses sponsored by The Claremont Colleges as part of joint programs, i.e., Asian American Studies, Africana Studies, and Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies.

Please refer to the Schedule of Courses on the Scripps Portal published each semester by the Office of the Registrar for up-to-date information on course offerings.

All courses are 1.0 credit unless otherwise stated.

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	ENGL 119 PO - Graphic Novels See Pomona College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 121 SC - Milton John Milton’s work inspires Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy, in which reality and knowledge are radically altered. This course will introduce Milton’s explorations of the nature of knowledge, creation, and the place of fiction in a culture of science, as well as Pullman’s reworking of Milton’s epic poem. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 122 AF - Healing Narratives This course examines how African Diaspora writers, filmmakers, and critical theorists respond to individual and collective trauma, and how their works address questions of healing mind, body, and spirit. We will take particular interest in Black feminist theory, the body as a construct of racial ideology, and the business of remedy. Instructor: V. Thomas Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 123A SC - The Elizabethan Shakespeare A study of major comedies, histories, and tragedies before 1603 in relation to their historical context. We will pay particular attention to the role of women as it varies in the different genres and as it evolves in the course of Shakespeare’s development. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 123B SC - The Jacobean Shakespeare A study of Shakespeare’s dark comedies, tragedies, and romances (1603-1611) in relation to their historical context. We will trace the development of Shakespeare’s dramatic art through his increasingly tragic vision to the magical transformations of the final romances, with special attention to the roles of women in the various genres. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 124 AF - AfroFuturisms AfroFuturism articulates futuristic and Afro Punk cultural resistance, and radical subversions of racism, sexism, liberal humanism, and (neo)colonialism. Such texts also recall that Africans were not only subjected to and forced to maintain the technologies of enslavement, but were regarded as technology. AF engages music, visual arts, cyberculture, science, and philosophy. Instructor: V. Thomas Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 125C AF - Introduction to African American Literature: In the African-Atlantic Tradition Survey of 18th- and 19th-century Black Atlantic literary production, including oral and song texts, slave and emancipation narratives, autobiographical writing, early novels and poetry, with attention to cultural and political contexts, representations of race, gender and class, cultural political contexts, aesthetics of resistance, and African-centered literary constructions and criticisms. Instructor: V. Thomas Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 125D AF - Film and Literature of the African Diaspora See Pomona College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 128 PO - Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales See Pomona College catalog for details. Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 128 PZ - Writing the Body See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: B. Armendinger Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 130 AF - Topics in 20th Century African Diaspora Literature Topics change from year to year Instructor: V. Thomas Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 131 SC - Eighteenth-Century British Literature The 18th century was a period of benevolent geniality and vicious satire, stern moralism and weepy sentimentality, the worship of reason, and the fear of madness. It saw the rise of the novel, the near death of the drama, and the stirrings of a new poetry. We shall investigate this age through a reading of major authors, including Pope, Swift, Fielding, Richardson, Sheridan, Johnson, and Austen. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 132 AF - Black Queer Narratives and Theories This course examines the cultural productions of black queer artists and scholars whose focus on race and sexuality at the intersections of Black, feminist and queer history and thought shape the content and form of a black queer narrative in the latter twentieth century (approximately 1985-2005). Instructor: L. Harris Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 134 SC - Gothic Fiction A study of the Gothic novel, a literature of extreme emotion that subverted the earlier 18th-century emphasis on reason and helped inaugurate the Romantic period. Readings include works by Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew G. Lewis, Charles Robert Maturin, Mary Shelley, William Godwin, Emily Brontë, and Jane Austen. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 135 SC - The Satirical Imagination Exploration of the long tradition of satire: literature dedicated to exposing folly, hypocrisy, and human error, and to holding them up for ridicule. Focus on the crucial era of English satire, the eighteenth century, especially Swift and Pope. Consideration also of the history of satire, its forms in twentieth-century English fiction and contemporary popular culture, and its moral and political uses and implications. Instructor: A. Matz Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 140 PO - Literature of Incarceration: Writings from No Man’s Land Focusing on writing by women within prison systems worldwide including the United States and South Africa, the course seeks to frame and analyze their confrontations and experiences where conflicts of gender, ethnicity, class, and state authority produce inmates of policed and criminalized landscapes. Instructor: V. Thomas Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 143 SC - Victorian Novel This course studies the English novel from 1840 to 1900, the era of its greatest cultural authority in Britain. Emphasis both on the development of novelistic form (the Victorian narrator, the multi-plot novel, experiments in point of view, the representation of consciousness) and on the novel’s centrality in the representation and critique of nineteenth-century English culture and society (with regard to industrialization, urban experience, political representation, poverty and wealth, imperialism, the role of women in private and public life). Authors include the Brontës, Thackeray, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy. Instructor: A. Matz Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 143S SC - Literature and Popular Culture in the Antebellum US The years preceding the Civil War saw both the emergence of a distinctive national literature in the US and the rise of mass consumer culture. This upper-level seminar will explore how popular culture shaped American literature: how this era’s literature both grew out of popular culture and defined itself in contradistinction to it. The course will attend to such issues as the emergence of modern social movements, the explosion of writing by and for women, and the popularity of gothic and sensational fiction in the penny press. Readings will encompass both “classic” American literature and the ephemera of antebellum print culture. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Biannually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 145 SC - Romantic Literature The principal focus of this course will be on the relationship between Romanticism and both the Industrial and French Revolutions. We shall read the poetry, manifestoes and theoretical works of the major Romantic poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. We shall also read novels by Jane Austen and Mary Shelley, as well as prose by Edmund Burke, De Quincey, Hazlitt and William Godwin. Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 147 PO - Contemporary Critical Theory See Pomona College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 147 SC - Victorian Literature This course covers the period from approximately 1837 to 1900 and dwells on the major Victorian writers of poetry, non-fiction prose, and the novel. Victorian society experienced as shattering and rapid a transformation as any the West has known. We shall pay particular attention to the writers’ often ambivalent reactions to their society’s faith in religion, in culture, in technological and scientific progress, and in political solutions to a bewildering array of crises. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 149 SC - Literature of the Fin de Siècle This course examines the fiction, poetry, and drama of 1880-1905, a period of enormous innovation in literary form and expression. Study of the major schools and movements of the fin de siècle—symbolism, naturalism, aestheticism, decadence— with emphasis on how the major writers of the period transformed 19th-century conventions into a new modernist vocabulary. The focus is on British literature, with consideration of Continental writers as well. Authors include Zola, Schreiner, Hardy, Ibsen, Shaw, Huysmans, Wilde, James, and Conrad. Instructor: A. Matz Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 150 SC - Character and the Novel This course studies representations of the individual from ancient to contemporary literature, with primary focus on 19th- and 20th-century fiction. Emphasis on recurring themes and problems inherent in literary characterization: formation of individual identity, representation of consciousness, solitude and the relation of self to society, heroism and anti-heroism, political implications of “representation,” realism of fictional personhood. Readings in theory and philosophy as well as in fiction and drama. Authors include Austen, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Hardy, Freud, Joyce, Woolf, and Ishiguro. Instructor: A. Matz Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 151 SC - Modern British Novel A study of British fiction of the Modernist period, 1900-1940. Emphasis on the novels’ formal innovations (in perspective, chronology, language, and frankness) and on their representation of a society in extreme transformation (in light of new theories of self, and of world war). Authors include Conrad, Ford, Forster, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Waugh, and Rhys. Instructor: A. Matz Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 152 SC - Hardy and Lawrence This course studies the novels and poems of perhaps the only two writers in the English tradition to be masters of both genres. Emphasis on the interrelations of fiction and poetry: the ways in which the study of the novel and the analysis of verse can be mutually reinforcing rather than discrete. Other topics include sex, obscenity, and censorship; the subject of Englishness and the specifically English literary tradition; modernity and modernism; the problem of influence, especially Hardy’s complex influence on Lawrence. Instructor: A. Matz Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 153 PO - Chaucer and His World See Pomona College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 155 SC - Contemporary British Literature The course will focus upon the British experience of the 1970s and 1980s as expressed in the literature of the period. Readings will concentrate upon the novel (e.g., Kingsley Amis, Beryl Bainbridge, Malcolm Bradbury, A.S. Byatt, Len Deighton, Margaret Drabble, John Fowles, Graham Greene, Iris Murdoch). Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 158 PO - Jane Austen and the Reader See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: S. Raff Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 160 PO - Theories of Authorship See Pomona College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 160S SC - Postwar American Poetry This course will examine a variety of influential schools of post-1945 American poetry, including (among others) the Beats, the Black Mountain poets, the San Francisco Renaissance, the New York School, the Black Arts Movement, the Confessional poets, and LANGUAGE poetry. We’ll explore American poetry through a variety of lenses, with the goal of understanding how aesthetic and social practices shape our understanding of the very category of American poetry. This course meets the senior seminar requirement for Scripps English majors (please see “Senior Requirement in the English major” in the catalog) but is open to all students. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 161 SC - The Slave Narrative and the Novel of Slavery This course explores representations of slavery in slave narratives and novels about slavery from the 17th through the 21st century, paying particular attention to the antebellum period. We will consider the terms on which each genre establishes its authority and claims to be an ideal genre for depicting slavery. Instructor: T. Koenigs Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 163 PO - Eliot and Virginia Woolf See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: T. Clark Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 164 AF - Harlem Renaissance This course is a survey of African American literature and culture produced during or linked to the 1920s Harlem Renaissance. Central to the course is an ongoing survey and analysis of popular cultural forms, such as the blues, social dance, film, and musical theatre. Instructor: L. Harris Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 165 SC - Contemporary American Graphic Novels This course explores the emergence of the graphic novel as a newly “serious” genre, appropriate for literary study. A primary question will be: what is distinctive about the way a graphic novel uses narrative form? Authors may include Alan Moore, Alison Bechdel, Marjane Satrapi, and Chris Ware, among others. Instructor: W. Liu Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 166 SC - American Modernism This seminar will be an in-depth exploration of American literary modernism. We will consider how modernist writers experimented with new literary forms in an attempt to capture the experience of living in a rapidly changing world. Writers studied will include Eliot, Faulkner, Hughes, Stein, Fitzgerald, Hurston, and Barnes. Instructor: T. Koenigs Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 166 PZ - Writing the Body/Writing Community See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: B. Armendinger Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 169 SC - Contemporary American Fiction Because there is no canon of recent American fiction—no generally accepted list of the “great” works—we will draw our readings from prize winners, or runners-up, for literary awards in the last five years. Awards may include the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Edgar Award, the Hugo Award, the Pen/Faulkner Award, and the Newbery Prize. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 170A PO - History of the Book See Pomona College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 170J PO - Special Topics in American Literature: Toni Morrison See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: V. Thomas Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 173 SC - American Women Writers This course offers an overview of American women writers of the long nineteenth century (1780s-1930s), with particular attention to the rapid expansion of women’s writing in the antebellum period. Writers studied may include Wheatley, Stowe, Jacobs, Alcott, Dickinson, Wharton, Chopin, Cather, Moore, Hurston, and Stein. Instructor: T. Koenigs Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 174 SC - Contemporary Women Writers This course will study several major women novelists writing today—British, American, and Canadian. Authors include Doris Lessing, Margaret Drabble, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Paule Marshall, Sandra Cisneros. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 175 SC - American Women Poets This course looks at five poets including Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Sylvia Plath. Each of these poets has been extensively written about. We will consider how creativity is affected by culture, personal experience, politics, and artistic convention, reflecting upon the changes in critical appreciation of their work and recent approaches to their poems. Each student will keep a reading journal and direct one of the classes. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 177 SC - The Memoir Why is the memoir the most popular form for modern readers today? Does the genre have special relevance to women? We’ll read several memoirs, mainly (though not exclusively) by women, mainly by unknown writers, looking at the ways the writers negotiate their lives and life crises, their cultures, their construction of selves and a narrative they can live with. Students will write a memoir of their own. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 180 SC - Asian American Fiction This course will focus on Asian American fiction, and will explore the function of representation (both political and aesthetic) in relation to questions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. The course will involve readings in both primary and secondary texts, including critical and theoretical work in Asian American studies. Instructor: W. Liu Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 182 SC - Politics and Aesthetics This course examines how art has been used and theorized in relation to society in the West, Africa, and the Middle East. Through reading aesthetic and political theory, as well as exploring literature and art created for political ends (the protest novel, Black Consciousness poetry, Third Cinema) and “apolitical” art (lyric poetry, the experimental novel), students will analyze the conjuncture of the art work and society, and the ways that the “political” and the “beautiful” fluctuate according to poetic and intellectual tradition. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Biannually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 183 SC - Asian American Literature: Gender and Sexuality This course will explore questions of gender and sexuality in the context of Asian American literature and will investigate how these key terms undergird even the earliest formations of Asian America. The course will investigate this idea through a variety of lenses, focusing on both creative and critical texts. Instructor: W. Liu Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 184A CH - Chicano Movement Literature Readings in Chicano literature from the 1940s to the 1970s. Special emphasis will be placed on the historical context within which texts are written, i.e., post-World War II and the civil rights era. Recently discovered novels by Americo Paredes and Jovita Gonzalez and the poetry, narrative, and theatre produced during the Chicano/a Movement will be our subjects of inquiry. This course is cross listed as CHLT 126A CH. Taught in English. Instructor: R. Alcalá Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 184B CH - Contemporary Chicana/o Literature Beginning with the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back (1981), this survey examines how contemporary Chicana/o literature focuses on questions of identity, specifically gender and sexuality. Theoretical readings in feminism and gay studies will inform our interpretation of texts by Anzaldua, Castillo, Cisneros, Cuadros, Gaspar de Alba, Islas, Moraga, and Viramontes, among others. Cross listed as CHLT 126B CH. Taught in English. Instructor: R. Alcalá Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 184C CH - Contemporary Chicana Literature Seminar This seminar analyzes how Chicana writers have negotiated with and against the symbolic inheritance (and the material social consequences) of four Mexican cultural icons of womanhood: La Malinche, La Virgen de Guadalupe, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and La Llorona. Furthermore, the process of icon construction in Mexicano-Chicano culture will be explored by studying post-mortem representations of Selena Quintanilla. Cross listed as CHLT 186 CH. Taught in English. Instructor: R. Alcalá Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 184D CH - Chicana/o Short Fiction A wide compendium of short stories written by Mexican Americans or Chicanos will be analyzed, dating from the 1930s to the present day. Diverse approaches—historic, thematic, or regional—will be employed, as well as a focus on subgenres such as adolescent literature or detective fiction. Authors include Daniel Cano, Sandra Cisneros, Jovita Gonzales, Américo Paredes, Albert A. Rios, Gary Soto, and others. Cross listed as CHST184D CH. Taught in English. Instructor: R. Cano Alcalá Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 185F SC - Fiction Writing Workshop This course introduces students to the fundamental elements of writing fiction. Using modern and contemporary stories as a guide, students generate their own work and learn to critique it and revise it in a workshop setting, with an eye toward the completion of two stories at the end of the semester. Readings include the work of David Sedaris, Lydia Davis, George Saunders, Flannery O’Connor, Amy Hempel, Junot Diaz, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 185M SC - Memoir: Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop This course is a follow-up to ENGL 177 , The Memoir. Emphasis will be on writing a memoir or autobiographical essays. Readings to be selected from among the following: Russell Baker’s Growing Up, Kay Redfield Jameson’s An Unquiet Mind, Philip Roth’s Patrimony, Linda Grant’s Remind Me Who I Am, Again, Elaine Mar’s Paper Daughter, Helen Fremont’s After Long Silence, Geoffrey Wolff’s The Duke of Deception, Rick Bragg’s All Over But the Shouting. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 185P SC - Poetry Writing Workshop This course focuses on the art and craft of writing poetry, with emphasis on the evolution of poetic forms and the relationship between form and content. While the primary work will be on the active, rigorous production of poems, there will also be a good deal of investigative reading. Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission. (Interested students should email instructor for details.) Instructor: W. Liu Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 186 SC - Human Rights and World Literature This course introduces human rights via the declarations and legal texts that helped shape them, and the fictional texts that have represented and questioned their violations. Our exploration of how “rights” (and “the human”) have been defined begins in the West and extends to Asia, Africa, and South America. Instructor: M. Decker Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 187 AF - Major Author: Nuruddin Farah This course will be an examination of the major novels of Nuruddin Farah with an emphasis on panafricanism, feminism, and Islamic liberalism. Instructor: A. Waberi Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 187 SC - Race and Gender in Postcolonial Literature This course asks how racial and gender identities have been imagined and propagated during the colonial and postcolonial periods. We will approach this topic through the reading and viewing of texts and films written from both Western (especially British and American) and non-Western (African, Latin American, Asian, Pacific Islander) perspectives. Instructor: M. Decker Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 188C SC - The Postcolonial Novel This course will introduce students to Postcolonial studies, an important field in the Humanities and especially in literary studies. Students will read critical and theoretical texts which form the intellectual core of the field, as well as novels by writers who are from formerly colonized parts of the world, and/or whose work engages the history and legacy of European colonialism. The novel, as a Western cultural form with its own history and legacy though figuring here in a non Western context, will be a feature of class discussion. Writers include Naipaul, Achebe, Saleh, Ngugi, Coetzee, Rushdie, Roy, Djebar, and Zadie Smith. Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 189J PO - Topics in Asian American Literature This course is a general introduction to Asian American literature that tracks the major historical events, ideological problems, and social movements of Asians in America since the nineteenth century. We will examine a number of literary forms (fiction, memoir, drama, poetry) and investigate writing by authors from a number of different ethnic immigrant groups (Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Indian). Through these engagements, this course aims to introduce students to the major issues in this field of study; to explore overlaps with adjacent critical fields—such as postcolonial, queer, and gender studies—and to consider new directions for a literature and discourse that is often described as on the cusp of significant change. Instructor: J. Jeon Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 190 SC - Senior Seminar in English A seminar for students writing a thesis with a substantial component in British, American, or Anglophone literature. The seminar will introduce students to a range of ways of discussing and analyzing literary texts, but the focus of the course will be connecting the core readings with the development of each student’s senior thesis. Required of English majors. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 191 SC - Senior Thesis An extended critical work of at least 40 pages required of all majors in English. The student works closely with the faculty member whose specialization lies in the area in which the student has chosen to write. This thesis is designed to follow ENGL 190 . Offered annually. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 194S SC - Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop This advanced fiction workshop is intended for students who have taken at least one course in fiction writing (ENGL193 or an equivalent course at the Claremont Colleges). By the end of the semester students will complete at least two stories or a single longer work of fiction. This course meets the senior seminar requirement for Scripps English majors (please see “Senior Requirement in the English major” in the catalog) but is open to all students. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every Year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 196 AF - Major Figures in 20th-Century American Literature: James Baldwin Explores the work of one of America’s greatest writers whose importance resides in part in his calling into question national practices and injustices in regards to race, sexuality, religion, civil rights struggles, and other political matters. Instructor: L. Harris Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 197 SC - Special Topics in English This number will be used for one-time courses in the English Department. Consult the preregistration materials for specific course titles. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 197N SC - What is a Book? The study of literature requires the study of books. In this course we will trace the history of the book as a material object from the invention of the printing press to the present. Case studies will include William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, and Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGL 199 SC - Independent Study in English: Reading and Research Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ENGl 199T SC - Senior Thesis Scripps senior English majors who are taking one of the seminars eligible for the senior requirement (course number ending in S) are concurrently enrolled in this course as well. ENGL199T SC refers to the 30-page thesis that emerges from those seminars. (formerly ENGL191) Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Fall or spring, depending on the senior seminar Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Foreign Languages
	FLAN 101 SC - Foreign Language and Culture Teaching Clinic II This course enables students who have previously taken and successfully completed the Core III section entitled “Foreign Language and Culture Teaching Clinic” to continue their teaching experience for one semester. Approval from the teaching site needs to be secured prior to registration. Prerequisite(s): Core III, Section “Foreign Language and Culture Teaching Clinic.” Instructor: T. Boucquey Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FLAN 191 SC - Senior Thesis Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FLAN 199 SC - Independent Study Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
French
	FREN 001 SC - Introductory French Developing aural, oral, reading, and writing skills. Conversation groups with a native assistant required and weekly 30-minute conversation class (registration TBA at beginning of semester). Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 002 SC - Continued Introductory French Study of more advanced grammatical structures and syntax. Intensive practice in speaking, reading, and writing. Laboratory and conversation groups with native assistant required and weekly 30-minute conversation class (registration TBA at beginning of semester). Prerequisite(s): FREN 001 or French Placement Test Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 022 SC - Intensive Introductory French Designed for students with some previous experience in the language who are too advanced for FREN 001 , but do not yet qualify for FREN 002 . Students will fulfill in one semester the equivalent of two semesters (1, 2) and upon completion will enroll directly in FREN 033 . Conversation groups with a native assistant required and weekly 30-minute conversation class (registration TBA at beginning of semester). Prerequisite(s): French Placement Test or spring semester FREN001. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 033 SC - Intermediate French Refinement of the four basic skills. Reading in literature. Conversation groups with a native assistant required and weekly 30-minute conversation class (registration TBA at beginning of semester). Prerequisite(s): FREN 002 , FREN 022 , or French Placement Test. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 044 SC - Advanced French: Readings in Literature and Civilization This course examines the distinctions among literary genres and presents them within an analytical frame. Selections from classical and modern texts will be read with focus on interpretation and comprehension. Development of correctness and style in students’ written and oral work will be emphasized, and weekly 45-minute conversation class (registration TBA at beginning of semester). Prerequisite(s): FREN 033 or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 100 SC - French Culture and Civilization Through a historical survey of the major characteristics of French civilization, this course will focus on interrelationships between trends in art, history of ideas, political institutions, and social traditions that have shaped modern France. Required of all majors in French studies. Highly recommended to candidates for study abroad. A weekly session with the French Assistant is a requirement of this course. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Instructor: E. Haskell Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 104 SC - History, Memory, and Loss: Vichy (1940-45) in Contemporary France In the late 1960s, France started to come to terms with its Fascist past and its complicity with the Holocaust. This course examines why and how French collective memory was reshaped a generation after the end of World War II. We will look at works by historians like Paxton, Rousso, Azema and Wieviorka; writers like Modiano, Duras, Raczymov, Finkielkraut; and filmmakers like Malle, Ophüls, Resnais, Lanzmann, and Losey. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Instructor: N. Rachlin Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 106 SC - The French Business World and its Language While focusing on French business culture and familiarizing the students with Français des Affaires parlance, this course will be an introduction to the French economy, the French corporate ambience, marketing and management in France, the French business environment, and France’s international trade milieu. In addition to textbook materials, current articles from leading French magazines as well as French television programs and DVDs will be used. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Instructor: T. Boucquey Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 107 SC - Headline News: Advanced Oral Expression and Composition in Current Events and Culture This course aims to intensively upgrade oral and written skills at the advanced level, and is organized around a series of cultural readings as well as current events topics relating to France and the francophone world. Students will be exposed to various discursive modes and stylistic forms. French-language plays, newscasts, television programs, film clips, and websites, as well as newspaper and magazine articles will serve as the subject material for this speaking- and writing-intensive course. In semesters when French 100 is not offered, this course will fulfill the French 100 major requirement. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Instructor: T. Boucquey Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 110 PO - Contemporary French Film See Pomona College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 110 SC - France in the ‘Hood: Nationhood, Immigration, and the Politics of Identity in France As France struggles to meet the challenges of both European integration and the globalization of its economy, immigration is today being perceived as “a problem.” France’s “problem” with immigration, cannot, however, be viewed simply as a knee-jerk response to the country’s endemic economic crisis. It is rather the symptom of a deeper social, political, and cultural crisis besetting France at the fin-de-siècle: an identity crisis, which this course attempts to diagnose. Topics to be explored: the “banlieue” (the side of France tourists never see: its projects on the outskirts of large cities) as a social and cultural phenomenon; identity politics in France; immigration and nationhood; immigration in the postwar period; citizenship and the rights of immigrants; the resurgence of racist and xenophobic politics in France today; integration vs. multiculturalism; and finally, the impact of immigrants on French culture (Beurs, French rappers, Rai music, etc.). Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Instructor: N. Rachlin Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 111 SC - French Cinema: Images of Women in French Film This course will concentrate on three aspects of the role of women in French film in order to define the relationship between women as icons (larger-than-life images in the collective fantasy of a certain “Frenchness”), women as subjects, and, finally, women as creators of film. Appropriate readings in French will be assigned. Some films may be shown without subtitles; discussion and written work will be in French. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Instructor: D. Krauss Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 112 CM - Le Théâtre Francophone Please see the Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Instructor: F. Aitel, M.D. Shelton Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 114 SC - Documenting the French: An Introduction to the French Documentary Tradition This course examines how documentary cinema has recorded and reflected upon France’s dramatic social transformations in the 20th century. Through analyses of films by the Lumière brothers, Vigo, Rouquier, Franju, Resnais, Marker, Rouch, Tavernier, Godard, Lanzmann, Depardon, Philibert, and Varda amongst others, the course will stress the diversity and inventiveness of the documentary as an art form. Prerequisite(s): FREN100 SC or equivalent. Instructor: N. Rachlin Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 117 CM - Novel and Cinema in Africa and the Caribbean Please see the Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Instructor: M.D. Shelton Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 118 SC - From French “Frogs” to Quebec “Wawarons”: A Cultural Exploration of French Identity This course explores Quebec’s cultural identity and its relationship to French culture through novels, films, humorists, singers, poets and cultural guides. This class investigates the relationship of France and Quebec via a multi-faceted analysis and uncovers what, in their respective system of values, makes both societies remarkably and perhaps intolerably French. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Instructor: F. Lemoine Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 120 CM - Order and Revolt in French Literature Please see the Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 121 SC - The Politics of Love Through a survey of classic works of French literature and cinema, we will examine how the social functions and economic imperatives of the institution of marriage evolved from the Middle-Ages to the present. The course will underscore the different ways in which these great French love stories reflect upon, and at times overtly critique, the policing of human desire and love according to patriarchal and exclusionary norms. Literary texts include Tristan & Yseut, Don Juan, Manon Lescaut, Madame Bovary, and L’Amant; theorists include De Beauvoir, Foucault, Irigaray, Barthes, Bourdieu. Films include Le Retour de Martin Guerre, Les Liaisons dangereuses, Les Enfants du Paradis, Ma Vie en rose, and La Captive. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Instructor: N. Rachlin Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 122 SC - French Women Writers from Marie de France to Madame de La Fayette A survey of women writers of Medieval, Renaissance, and Classical France, including Christine de Pisan, Marie de France, Marguerite de Navarre, Louise Labe, Madame de La Fayette and Madame de Sevigne. Poetry, novels, short stories, and fairy tales will exemplify the status of women and its evolution from the Middle Ages to 1700. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Instructor: T. Boucquey Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 123 SC - Representations of the Self: From Rousseau to Lévi-Strauss An examination of autobiography and its claim to autonomy as a literary genre. The point of departure for the course will be a selection of the autobiographical writings of Rousseau. Other texts to be studied will include works by Stendhal, Valles, Gide, and Sartre. We will also discuss contemporary developments in the genre that are taking it in a completely nontraditional direction. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Instructor: D. Krauss Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 124 SC - The Novelist and Society in France A study of the major trends in the French novel from the 17th-century to the present. Particular attention will be given to the social and intellectual factors that influenced the evolution of the tradition of the novel in France. Readings and discussions may include novels by Madame de La Fayette, Diderot, Constant, Chateaubriand, Balzac, Stendhal, Maupassant, Gide, Camus, and Duras. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 125 SC - Introduction to French Poetry This course traces the changes in poetic structure and language from the traditional lyrical forms of the Middle Ages to the subversive poetics of such 20th-century avant-garde groups as the Surrealists and the poets of Tel Quel. The latter portion of the course will be devoted to poets whose effort to disrupt poetic conventions was to have not only aesthetic but also social and political ramifications, for language and the literary text were seen as instruments for social revolution. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 126 SC - Paris: Capitale des Arts (1850-1930) From Baudelaire’s artiste-flaneur to the Lost Generation writers of the Jazz Age, Paris and the arts have been inextricably intertwined. In our analysis of works by Maupassant, Zola, Apollinaire, Hemingway, Manet and Picasso, we will discover the role of Paris as an artistic muse and a work of art itself. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Instructor: C. Nettleton Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 130 SC - French Theater from Text to Stage I: Theatricality and “Mise en Scène.” This course will examine major plays of the French theatrical canon from a performance perspective. The role of the characters as actors inside their play will be central to our investigation. Textual analysis as well as performance of selected scenes constitute the focus of this course. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Instructor: T. Boucquey, E. Haskell Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 131 SC - French Theater from Text to Stage II: The Tragic and Comic Muse This course proposes to investigate the nature of tragedy and comedy and their subsequent fusion in the Nouveau Theatre phenomenon of the post-war period in France. Major plays from the French dramatic canon will be the object of our study. In addition to examining analytical and theoretical issues related to tragedy and comedy, students will perform scenes from the plays studied in the course. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Instructor: T. Boucquey, E. Haskell Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 132 CM - Introduction to North African Literature (after Independence) Please see the Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Instructor: F. Aitel Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 133 CM - Africa in France Please see Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Instructor: F. Aitel Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 135 CM - The Art of the Short Story See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Instructor: M.D. Shelton Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 137 CM - The Algerian War and the French Intelligentsia See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 141 SC - Medieval French Literature, Culture, and Language A survey of some of the major texts in French Medieval narrative literature. Each text will be studied for its intrinsic literary merits, and for the particular aspect of medieval culture it reflects. Modern French versions of the texts will be used, but for each text an excerpt will be studied linguistically in the original. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Instructor: T. Boucquey Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 151 PO - Men, Women, and Power See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: M. Waller Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.

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Courses

ENGL 119 PO - Graphic Novels

ENGL 121 SC - Milton

ENGL 122 AF - Healing Narratives

ENGL 123A SC - The Elizabethan Shakespeare

ENGL 123B SC - The Jacobean Shakespeare

ENGL 124 AF - AfroFuturisms

ENGL 125C AF - Introduction to African American Literature: In the African-Atlantic Tradition

ENGL 125D AF - Film and Literature of the African Diaspora

ENGL 128 PO - Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

ENGL 128 PZ - Writing the Body

ENGL 130 AF - Topics in 20th Century African Diaspora Literature

ENGL 131 SC - Eighteenth-Century British Literature

ENGL 132 AF - Black Queer Narratives and Theories

ENGL 134 SC - Gothic Fiction

ENGL 135 SC - The Satirical Imagination

ENGL 140 PO - Literature of Incarceration: Writings from No Man’s Land

ENGL 143 SC - Victorian Novel

ENGL 143S SC - Literature and Popular Culture in the Antebellum US

ENGL 145 SC - Romantic Literature

ENGL 147 PO - Contemporary Critical Theory

ENGL 147 SC - Victorian Literature

ENGL 149 SC - Literature of the Fin de Siècle

ENGL 150 SC - Character and the Novel

ENGL 151 SC - Modern British Novel

ENGL 152 SC - Hardy and Lawrence

ENGL 153 PO - Chaucer and His World

ENGL 155 SC - Contemporary British Literature

ENGL 158 PO - Jane Austen and the Reader

ENGL 160 PO - Theories of Authorship

ENGL 160S SC - Postwar American Poetry

ENGL 161 SC - The Slave Narrative and the Novel of Slavery

ENGL 163 PO - Eliot and Virginia Woolf

ENGL 164 AF - Harlem Renaissance

ENGL 165 SC - Contemporary American Graphic Novels

ENGL 166 SC - American Modernism

ENGL 166 PZ - Writing the Body/Writing Community

ENGL 169 SC - Contemporary American Fiction

ENGL 170A PO - History of the Book

ENGL 170J PO - Special Topics in American Literature: Toni Morrison

ENGL 173 SC - American Women Writers

ENGL 174 SC - Contemporary Women Writers

ENGL 175 SC - American Women Poets

ENGL 177 SC - The Memoir

ENGL 180 SC - Asian American Fiction

ENGL 182 SC - Politics and Aesthetics

ENGL 183 SC - Asian American Literature: Gender and Sexuality

ENGL 184A CH - Chicano Movement Literature

ENGL 184B CH - Contemporary Chicana/o Literature

ENGL 184C CH - Contemporary Chicana Literature Seminar

ENGL 184D CH - Chicana/o Short Fiction

ENGL 185F SC - Fiction Writing Workshop

ENGL 185M SC - Memoir: Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop

ENGL 185P SC - Poetry Writing Workshop

ENGL 186 SC - Human Rights and World Literature

ENGL 187 AF - Major Author: Nuruddin Farah

ENGL 187 SC - Race and Gender in Postcolonial Literature

ENGL 188C SC - The Postcolonial Novel

ENGL 189J PO - Topics in Asian American Literature

ENGL 190 SC - Senior Seminar in English

ENGL 191 SC - Senior Thesis

ENGL 194S SC - Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop

ENGL 196 AF - Major Figures in 20th-Century American Literature: James Baldwin

ENGL 197 SC - Special Topics in English

ENGL 197N SC - What is a Book?

ENGL 199 SC - Independent Study in English: Reading and Research

ENGl 199T SC - Senior Thesis

FLAN 101 SC - Foreign Language and Culture Teaching Clinic II

FLAN 191 SC - Senior Thesis

FLAN 199 SC - Independent Study

FREN 001 SC - Introductory French

FREN 002 SC - Continued Introductory French

FREN 022 SC - Intensive Introductory French

FREN 033 SC - Intermediate French

FREN 044 SC - Advanced French: Readings in Literature and Civilization

FREN 100 SC - French Culture and Civilization

FREN 104 SC - History, Memory, and Loss: Vichy (1940-45) in Contemporary France

FREN 106 SC - The French Business World and its Language

FREN 107 SC - Headline News: Advanced Oral Expression and Composition in Current Events and Culture

FREN 110 PO - Contemporary French Film